Learned journal. Commercial site..."Annals of Tourism Research is a social sciences journal focusing upon the academic perspectives of tourism. While striving for a balance of theory and application, Annals is ultimately dedicated to developing..."

Some useful links by way of browsing from the top bar. The search engines do not seem to work very well - too many dead links ..."DestiNet helps you to develop sustainable consumption and production in the tourism sector, both in the tourism value chain or at destination level.
DestiNet is tourist destination information service that supports networking of various sustainable tourism stakeholders. The portal offers a number of services including the option to submit EVENTS or NEWS and to suggest new links on relevant TOPICS, TOOLS or STAKEHOLDERS.
DestiNet is jointly administrated by the European Environment Agency (EEA), ECOTRANS a European network of experts and organisations in the tourism sector, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Tourism Organization (UN WTO). The main objective of DestiNet is to provide a user-friendly environment for the tourism stakeholder community to showcase best practices and share knowledge within DestiNet partnership (EEA, ECOTRANS, UNEP, WTO) and its users.
Based on this, the creation of Sustainable Tourism Knowledge Networks is now underway. Such networks will tackle issues relevant to developing, enhancing, and evaluating policy measures and the success of regulatory and voluntary actions concerning tourism and tourism destinations..."

"ECPAT is a network of organisations and individuals working together to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation...
The ECPAT acronym stands for ' End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes'...
ECPAT has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC)."

"We are a research, campaign and advocacy organisation. We study the social, cultural, economic and environmental impact of tourism on local communities. We believe that tourism should be non-exploitative, equitable and sustainable. A question that has been central to our work and directs much of it is ‘Who Really Benefits from Tourism?’..."

Use the site map and search engine on this page for regional plans, including Myanmar...If that does not work, use the Google site-specific search for Myanmar Transport [results in Alternate URL]
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=myanmar+transport+site:unescap.org&oq=myanmar+transport+site:unescap.org&gs_l=hp.12...1292.12192.1.14850.17.17.0.0.0.2.1320.6395.0j12j1j1j7-3.17.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.vNfVLb2I5Og&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=a80f56a052d2d330&biw=1138&bih=493

Industry and Govt. body with UN connections. Publishes lots of tourism statistics. NB its Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, which was endorsed by ECOSOC in 2001. The Code has, in theory, a supervisory mechanism, but with no means, so far as I can see, for the actual victims of tourism development to bring complaints.

"With its sweeping view of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a glittering golden stupa and Myanmar’s top cultural attraction, the Esperado Lake View Hotel should be in an enviable spot. Yet, just two years after it was built, this four-star hotel sits half-empty for many months at a time, according to manager Nero Kyaw Wai. “We aren’t seeing the demand in Myanmar,” he said..."

"10 principles and challenges for a sustainable tourism development in the 21st Century.... In the light of the poor progress of sustainable development ten years after the Rio Earth Summit, tourism could be shown the red card: -
sent-off, back to training - a demand that tourism leaders learn to practise "fair play" and contribute to sustainable development, as should be expected from the representatives of one of the world's leading industries! The call is
launched by representatives of the network for sustainable tourism development DANTE in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 in Johannesburg."